Word: buchananism
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...nine Presidents who preserved perfect veto records throughout their terms handed down a total of only 86 vetoes: Washington (2), Madison (7), Monroe (1), Jackson (12), Polk (3), Buchanan (7), Lincoln (6), McKinley (42), Harding...
...House limousine stopped at the Russian embassy on 16th Street one morning last week and picked up a burly passenger bundled up in a double-breasted blue overcoat. Escorted by two motorcycle cops, the car sped to the White House, where the State Department's Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan Jr. escorted the visitor into the oval, green-walled office of the President of the United States...
Apparently Menshikov smiled at his closed-door meeting with the President (nobody else was present except Protocol Chief Buchanan). Credentials-presenting ceremonies at the White House are usually routine, lasting five or ten minutes. But Menshikov's visit lasted 32 minutes. When press photographers asked Press Secretary James Hagerty about pictures, he said flatly: "No, we never have pictures of these calls." But a moment later his aide hove into view, calling, "Photographers!" The President himself had decided to break the rule...
...Government, Major Anderson stretched his orders beyond the snapping point, moved his men from Moultrie to Fort Sumter by night. When Southerners in Washington got the word, they rushed to the Old Public Functionary, who crushed out his cigar in the palm of his hand. "My God!" cried James Buchanan. "Are calamities never to come singly! I call God to witness . . . that this is not only without but against my orders...
...yeoman service for the Union by becoming one of the Confederacy's most inept generals, but now he was interested only in making sure that U.S. forces in Charleston were not strengthened by so much as a spitball. That fitted in perfectly with the policy of President James Buchanan, the "Old Public Functionary" (known to his critics as the "Old Pennsylvania Fogy"), who only wanted to delay war until the day when he could turn the whole sorry mess over to the incoming Lincoln Administration...